Air Pollution: EU Law
(asked on 13th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in how many years since 2010 (a) Greater London and (b) the UK has been in breach of EU air pollution levels.
Defra assesses compliance against EU air quality limit values for 43 regional zones and agglomerations across the UK. This monitoring covers five key pollutants: particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), sulphur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
Monitoring data is available up to 2015. Full compliance details for the UK since 2010 (and as far back as 2003) are available in our online Air Pollution reports. These can be found at: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/annualreport/.
Specific compliance details for Greater London, in each year since 2010 that data is available for, is set out in the table below:
Zone | Year NO2 hourly and annual limit values were exceeded | Year PM10 daily mean limit value exceeded | Year PM2.5 annual stage 2 (2020) limit value exceeded | SO2, PM10 annual mean, PM2.5 annual stage 1 (2015) and O3 limit values |
Greater London | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 | 2010 | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 | No exceedances |
UK | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 | 2010 | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 | No exceedances |